1 kW Vertical Axis Darrius Wind Turbine in Hunchun, China

[1899lpv]

There is one of those experimental vertical axis in Cap-Chat,Canada. It was in service in the late 70's. It is big enough that you can park a car at the bottom axis And it is a couple hundred feet high. The reason why its no longer in service is that it is too heavy,therefore it crushed the bottom bearings and now it serves as a tourist attraction

[Jebus495]

Looks like it's under load and is turning in fairly low winds. Good job.

[alexermerson]

What am I missing? It appears to be free spinning on a spindle with no generator.

How does it produce any power at all??

[kevindog86]

haha leave it to the chinese to make a wind turbine out of aluminum foil. low quality has always been china's weak point. I have no fucking idea why they produce so many goods because it is all cheap crap.

[Pushdoorpuller421]

this looks like my ass hole



[joe18370]

wow verry short to tell anything

[DJstagen]

1kW from rusty metal tin foil-looking material and wire, China amazes us once again with its crap quality and awesome-ish preformance...

[bjstechbjstech]

looks like a rusty steel and tin wings, Ornamental.

[njatzsnja]

100W max? possible.

[erik374]

Hehe nice :)

[jasminsanty]

light and fast

[Lunick00]

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[DeadBodyOutline]

looks like tin foil to me -.-

[dulcebelluminexperti]

My wife would kill me if I put that thing on our backyard.

[shetpopo]

with that little motion, you get that Kw .but in the whole month, haha

[deals2useDOTcom]

How many feet tall it is?

[sjh7132]

Does it really spin that slowly, or was this on a day with little wind?

[FutzAndTinker]

That was a very in depth and informative video. Thanks for posting!

[trunk516]

LOLLLLLLLLL....well said

[Frosttty]

"All materials are Chinese quality..." Well, I guess that means they're full of melamine. LOL!

[TheUnNerved]

And lead

[foxy2035]

haha Chinese quality is the shittest quality. I wouldn't put that in the specs

[emagnets]

ok, good job, it is just that it take so much blade area to produce that kind of power, but i gusse you are corect, location is everything..

keep up the good work.

emagnets

[alliismylover]

The previous reply to your comment stated the turbine would produce 1kW in area winds. I took some data and the calculations show that in 14m/s winds it will produce 1.05kW. Commercial wind turbines are standadly rated at 25mph, in that case it is actually a 3.8kW turbine.

[emagnets]

wow.. waht is the size of this thing?!

[alliismylover]

5.35m from base from generator box to top of guy pole. 3.04m at the widest point. Blades have a height of 4.05m and are 5.60m long.

[emagnets]

this thing can produce 1kw?...wow..what makes it so effecient?

should i build one to see or you have a trick in the schematics?...good job then.

[alliismylover]

its 100 ftsq. turbineon a three bearing system that I designed. Located in a region of 15 mph winds. NACA 0018 airfoil on the spars. Just about anything will produce that much in northern China. It's all about the location